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Measure of distance East and West of the Prime Meridian

Measure of distance East and West of the Prime Meridian. Longitude . The measure of distance north and south of the equator. Latitude. Basic systems needed to keep an economy running(water, transportation and electricity. Infrastructure.

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Measure of distance East and West of the Prime Meridian

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  1. Measure of distance East and West of the Prime Meridian

  2. Longitude

  3. The measure of distance north and south of the equator

  4. Latitude

  5. Basic systems needed to keep an economy running(water, transportation and electricity

  6. Infrastructure

  7. The typical weather conditions at a particular location as observed over time

  8. Climate

  9. Government where people freely choose leaders and decide public policy

  10. Democracy

  11. A city and its surrounding suburbs

  12. Metropolitan Area

  13. The total of all goods and services produced by a country in a year

  14. Gross National Product

  15. Mexican factories set up near the United States’ border by foreign businesses which use the cheaper labor there

  16. Maquiladoras

  17. Persons of mixed French and Native American Ancestry

  18. Metis

  19. The head of a government and the majority party’s leader in Parliament

  20. Prime Minister

  21. Person of mixed Spanish and Native American Ancestry

  22. Mestizo

  23. Breaking up large land holdings and redistributing the land to the poor

  24. Land Reform

  25. Goods sent out of a country for sale

  26. Export

  27. Jamaican music dealing with social problems and religion

  28. Reggae

  29. Goods brought into your country from another

  30. Import

  31. Poorly planned development that spreads a city’s population over a wider and wider area

  32. Urban Sprawl

  33. Serbian leader who went to war in the 1990’s and allowed his troops to commit war crimes (murder, atrocities)

  34. Slobodan Milosevic

  35. The Policy of trying to eliminate an ethnic group through violence

  36. Ethnic Cleansing

  37. European religious movements which led to the formation of Protestant churches

  38. Reformation

  39. Three hundred year period in Europe of renewed interest in the arts and classical learning

  40. Renaissance

  41. Brown haze caused by the reaction of sunlight with gasses from burning fossil fuels

  42. Smog

  43. A hot desert wind from North Africa which blows northward over the Mediterranean Sea into southern Europe

  44. Sirocco

  45. Discrimination against or hatred of Jewish people

  46. Anti- Semitism

  47. Eastern European region breaking into small hostile units

  48. Balkanization

  49. How do geographers use the system of Latitude and Longitude?

  50. It allows them to determine an absolute location.

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